Sugar and cider mill



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HAMILTON J. COX, OF WARREN COUNTY, OHIO.

SUGAR AND CIDER MILL.

h Specification of Letters Patent No. 19,545, dated March 9, 18158.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, HAMILTON JEFFERSON Cox, of the county of Warren and State of Ohio, have inventeda new and useful Combination of Machinery for the Double Purpose of Grinding Chinese Sugar-Cane and Apples; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in lwhich- Letter B is a perspective view letter A is a view of the third roller, which is placed immediately behind the governing roller No. 2 in letter B. The end or journal of this rollerA is seen at figure 7 in the perspective. Letter C is a view of an upright guard to prevent the escape of the bagasse before it passes between 2 and 7.

Y Figure 1, 1, 1, l, is the frame made of heavy 6 inch boards or of their equivalent in iron. A

No. 2 is the governing or driving roller, 30 inches high and 14 inches in diameter, whose upper half is cut into round cogs and grooves, wood or iron.

No. 3 is a roller precisely like letter A whose upper half is cut to match No. 2 and ofthe same diameter, but whose lower half is smooth, and four inches less in diameter, the grooves and cogs on all being two inches deep,.thereby allowing the smooth surfaces to approach each other.

No. 4 is an opening in the left hand end of the frame for the escape of the bagasse, or crushed cane. This is made by cut-ting the end as high up as the smooth surface of the rollers, and beveling the edges in to the rollers Nos. 2 and 7, this is necessary to prevent the bagasse from being carried around the mill.

N o. 5 is the hopper for apples. This may be made by cutting in the top or by making a hopper and cutting away a portion of the top and letting the hopper run downto upright guard C. If the hopper is' made by cutting the top, the upright C mayl run up to the bottom of the hopper, sloping back from the lower end of the cog work, so as to form part of the hopper, as seen in the model. Or the hopper may be placed in front of Nos. 2 and 3, and let the apples and cane both be fed in at the same side'.

No. 6 is the top of journal of No. 3.

No. 7 is the top of journal of No. 7 referred to as a roller.

No. 8 is the top of'journal of No. 2 orv governing roller, and must extend above the top of the frame 18 or 24 inches, upon which the lever is placed for turning the mill.

NNos. 9, 9, are keys or wedges to tighten No. 10 is round cog work, alike on the three rollers constituting the crushing apparatus for apples, and driving power.

Letter A is one of the rollers which cannot be seen in the perspective, but whose journal is seen at 7. N o. 1 is the cog work, No. 2 is the lower half, intended for crushing the cane, Nos. 3, 3, are the journals. These rollers are placed in the frame in the' following manner, viz: The No. 2 or governing roller, in the left hand corner, near to the front edge. No. 3 isplaced on the right and near it, both having their centers on a line. No. 7 is placed immediately behind No. 2. with their centers on a line, and arranged to be keyed up to No. 2, by a block let down at the side of the journals and governed by a screw as seen in the model. Between the rollers 3 and 7 the uprightY guard C is fitted to reach from the bottom to the cog work or bottom of hopper. Upon this, or attached to it is a thin semicircular piece, No. 2, C, which extends over this upright and fits up against No. 2 B. The upright stands oft' from No. 2, B, about an inch, and is slightly hollowing on the side next to the roller 2, B. The semicircular rpiece 2,. on the top of this upright is designed to prevent the bagasse working up and the apples working down. No. 1, C, is hollow surface next the rollers; No. 2, semicircular piece on top; No. 3, tenon at bottom.

To operate this mill, it must be fastened upon the top of a trough or box made for the purpose, and a lever attached to No. 2 for the horses. In grinding sugar cane, the cane is fedin between Nos. 2 and 3 and the bagasse escapes at No. 4. The cane isonly to pass between the lower or smooth part of the rollers, 2 and 3 and 2 and 7, to escape at 4, and the juice runs down into the box or trough below. In grinding apples, they are poured intothe hopper 5, vpass between rollers 2 and 3, fall down in front into the trough or box. In grinding cane the lever is turned to the right or with ico the sun, and the reverse for apples, unless ner and form described in the within speci- 10 the hopper is placed on the side Where the cation, forming a new combination of Inacane passes in. The size and proportion chinery for the purpose of grinding sugar may be varied according to desire. cane and apples, the same being perfectly 5 Wliat I claim as my invention and desire adapted to both Without alteration.`

to secure by Letters Patent, is- HAMILTON J. COX.

The combination of the several parts of itnessesz a grooved roller cider mill, and the several MYRON S. COX,

parts of a smooth roller sugar mill, in manl WM. H. IERR. 

